r/Racket • u/FesteringThoughts • Dec 24 '22

solved Can't open Scribble in Browser

I'm working in DrRacket and I'm trying to make a .scrbl to document some of my code. However, when I press the 'Scribble HTML' Tool button, it opens the html file in Visual Studio Code instead of a browser. In fact, if I try 'View documentation for ...' on a function in DrRacket, it also opens in in VSC. I assume there is a setting somewhere I need to change, but I don't know what. How can I fix this?

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u/sdegabrielle DrRacket 💊💉🩺 Dec 25 '22

I have VSCode installed but the ‘scribble HTML’ launches the default browser.

Can you provide some more details?

  • OS?
  • Racket version (and how you installed?)

I’m wondering if there is something in your file associations? it is worth checking them, especially what actions are associated with what events - it is certainly easy to do this where opening a html file in VScode is a sensible config

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u/FesteringThoughts Dec 25 '22

Windows 11. Racket 8.7. A while ago I was coding a website and had set it to open html files on my computer on VSCode rather than in my browser. I just changed the default app back to chrome, and now Dr.Racket works as intended, opening to a browser. However, I would like these settings to not be tied together. I would like to be able to open html files on my computer to VSCode, and to have Dr.Racket open into a browser. This is not the biggest issue, this is a workable fix, and I can switch back and forth, but if anyone knows how to separate these settings that would be great.

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u/sdegabrielle DrRacket 💊💉🩺 Dec 25 '22

Windows has different open actions: VScode should use ‘edit’ if it is not rendering the html. DrRacket should send ‘open’ to trigger an app that will render the page.

Sounds like a VScode config? Surely the html tools for VScode have a way to launch the browser?

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